On Thu, Sep 26, 2002, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Claus Assmann wrote:
> > If someone is interested: > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-9-rfh.html > > Just as a small data point: I get message acceptance rates of > > 400msgs/s on a journalling file system (using a "normal" PC) that > > writes the data into the journal too. AFAICT that's due to the fact > > that fsync() is much fast for this kind of storage. > > > > The important part for mailservers here is the rate at which content > > files can by safely written to disk. From my limited experience > > journalling file systems are here much better than softupdates. > Can you tell me the approximate sizes of these mails and how they are > stored? The test for sendmail 9 were made with small sizes (1-4KB). They were stored in flat files using 16 directories. The performance tests for sendmail 8 were done with sizes from 1 to 40 KB, in a single queue directory (AFAIR). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
